[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: pcre-7.3-3.fc7

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-1842
2008-03-06 16:11:59
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Name        : pcre
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 7.3
Release     : 3.fc7
URL         : http://www.pcre.org/
Summary     : Perl-compatible regular expression library
Description :
Perl-compatible regular expression library.
PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are based on
the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this
just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions
themselves still follow Perl syntax and semantics. The header file
for the POSIX-style functions is called pcreposix.h.

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Update Information:

This update re-based pcre to version 7.3 as used in Fedora 8 to address multiple
security issues that cause memory corruption, leading to application crash or
possible execution of arbitrary code.    CVE-2007-1659 (#315871), CVE-2007-1661
(#392931), CVE-2007-1662 (#392921), CVE-2007-4766 (#392891), CVE-2007-4767
(#392901), CVE-2007-4768 (#392911), CVE-2008-0674 (#431660)    This issue may
affect usages of pcre, where regular expressions from untrusted sources are
compiled.  Handling of untrusted data using trusted regular expressions is not
affected by these problems.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb 12 2008 Tomas Hoger <thoger at redhat.com> - 7.3-3
- Backport patch from upstream pcre 7.6 to address buffer overflow
  caused by "a character class containing a very large number of
  characters with codepoints greater than 255 (in UTF-8 mode)"
  CVE-2008-0674, #431660
- Try re-enabling make check again.
* Fri Nov 16 2007 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 7.3-2
- Remove obsolete ``reqs''
- add dist tag
- update BuildRoot
* Mon Sep 17 2007 Than Ngo <than at redhat.com> - 7.3-1
- bz292501, update to 7.3
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #315871 - CVE-2007-1659 pcre regular expression flaws
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315871
  [ 2 ] Bug #392891 - CVE-2007-4766: pcre < 7.3 integer overflows
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=392891
  [ 3 ] Bug #392901 - CVE-2007-4767: pcre < 7.3 \p, \P, \P{x] length calculation issue
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=392901
  [ 4 ] Bug #392911 - CVE-2007-4768: pcre before 7.3 incorrect unicode in char class optimization
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=392911
  [ 5 ] Bug #392921 - CVE-2007-1662: pcre < 7.3 unmatched bracket/paren past EoS read issue
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=392921
  [ 6 ] Bug #392931 - CVE-2007-1661: pcre < 7.3 non-UTF-8 over-backtracking issue
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=392931
  [ 7 ] Bug #431660 - pcre: buffer overflow via large UTF-8 character class
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431660
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update pcre' at the command line.
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